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6.30.5 <span class="Unix">Unix</span> Platforms</A>
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<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2585' xml:id='l2h-2585' class="function">dist</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
<td><var>distname='', version='', id='',
supported_dists=('SuSE','debian','redhat','mandrake')</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Tries to determine the name of the OS distribution name
Returns a tuple <code>(<var>distname</var>, <var>version</var>, <var>id</var>)</code>
which defaults to the args given as parameters.
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<td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2586' xml:id='l2h-2586' class="function">libc_ver</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
<td><var>executable=sys.executable, lib='',
version='', chunksize=2048</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Tries to determine the libc version against which the file
executable (defaults to the Python interpreter) is linked. Returns
a tuple of strings <code>(<var>lib</var>, <var>version</var>)</code> which default
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Note that this function has intimate knowledge of how different
libc versions add symbols to the executable is probably only
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The file is read and scanned in chunks of <var>chunksize</var> bytes.
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